Trend indexes

Every index below is computed from changes we observed week by week — job-board diffs, WARN filings, registry records, DNS switches. Because the input is delta history, the series can't be reconstructed by scraping today's state. Cite freely with a link.

• Hiring Signal Index
  Weekly count of new hiring-intent signals across every tracked job board: bursts of sales, growth, AI, support, and partnerships roles. A rising index means budgets are opening.
  2475 hiring signals / 13 weeks · -40.9% w/w · updated Sep 19, 2026
• AI Hiring Index
  Weekly count of companies opening AI/ML roles — the cleanest public proxy for AI budget allocation. Derived from job-board diffs, not surveys.
  383 AI hiring signals / 13 weeks · -18.6% w/w · updated Sep 19, 2026
• Sales Hiring Index
  Weekly count of companies expanding sales teams (SDRs, AEs, RevOps, sales leadership). Tracks go-to-market investment across the tracked universe.
  927 sales hiring signals / 13 weeks · -46.3% w/w · updated Sep 19, 2026
• Layoff Velocity
  Weekly count of WARN layoff notices across tracked state feeds. A leading indicator of contraction — and a counter-signal for suppressing outbound.
  5 WARN notices / 13 weeks · 0 → 0 w/w · updated Jul 8, 2026
• New Business Index
  Weekly count of newly registered businesses across tracked city and state registries — local economic formation, measured from official records.
  3590 new registrations / 13 weeks · -23.8% w/w · updated Sep 19, 2026
• San Francisco New Business Index
  Weekly count of new San Francisco business registrations, straight from the city registry — a 13-week pulse of local formation.
  1775 SF registrations / 13 weeks · -16.6% w/w · updated Sep 19, 2026
• Tech Switching Index
  Weekly count of detected provider switches (email platform, email sender, DNS) across tracked companies' DNS records. Vendor churn, measured directly.
  891 provider switches / 13 weeks · -38.3% w/w · updated Sep 19, 2026
• Funding Index
  Weekly count of detected funding events (SEC Form D filings and press wires) — the strongest B2B buying trigger, as a time series.
  6847 funding events / 13 weeks · -32.5% w/w · updated Sep 19, 2026